Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rolan S. Hernandez '99 says he was not the biggest fan of the Air Force when he joined two years ago in an effort to pay for college...
...exemption for the military and the police that had always been part of federal gun-control laws. The lawmakers apparently hoped the prospect of disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan, all-night effort to avoid a government shutdown. Before the potential implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse...
...attorney's charge and sources familiar with the investigation, Carey's men approached several political groups, including the Democratic National Committee, offering to donate Teamster funds in return for contributions to the Carey campaign. In effect, his men were laundering Teamsters money destined for their candidate's re-election effort. Government sources told TIME that more than $1 million was funneled this way from the Teamster general treasury to benefit the Carey campaign...
...time that Carey had no knowledge of the myriad schemes to fund his campaign, and said he could run again. Three weeks ago, she announced that she was reconsidering in light of new findings by federal prosecutors. Then she recused herself. Now both the union and the effort to monitor it are in almost as much disarray as they were a decade ago, when the government launched this campaign to clean...
...produced the chain reaction that moved the McCain-Feingold reform bill to the Senate floor last week. What it mainly required was that a President trying to sidestep his own problems bump up against Republicans briefly eager not to look like defenders of a system they have spared no effort in the past to defend...